“A federal judge in California who ruled last year that the government’s use of ultra-secret National Security Letters is unconstitutional has defied her own ruling by enforcing other NSLs in the wake of that judgment, according to newly unsealed documents. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled last March that the letters — a kind of self-issued FBI subpoena that comes with a gag order on the recipient — are an unconstitutional impingement of free speech, and ordered the government to stop using them. The judge reasoned in court documents that since the 9th Circuit will be hearing the appeal of her March 2013, it makes sense to maintain the status quo until the appeals court issues its ruling.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/judge-nsl/
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